November 13, 2007
Forté One Of 10 Semifinalists For 2007 Doak Walker Award
SMU Athletic Forum
The Guaranty Bank SMU Athletic Forum Board of Directors announced today the ten semifinalists for the 2007 Doak Walker Award...

Forté Makes Cut For Doak Walker Award
New Orleans Times Picayune
Matt Forté is running through the Tulane record book. It isn't going unnoticed...

November 11, 2007
Forté Gives Old-School Attitude And Influence
New Orleans Times Picayune
He's a throwback all right, that's what Matt Forté is, enough of a throwback to bring back two names of Tulane Hall of Famers out of the history book...

November 8, 2007
Conference USA's Two-Headed Monster
ESPN.com
Back in July, Conference USA officials were scrambling to find a face for the league, a poster boy to plug their oft-overlooked product. Four months later, they have a two-headed monster...

November 7, 2007
Forté Named Maxwell Award Semifinalist
Maxwell Award Club Press Release
Maxwell Football Club President, Ron Jaworski, announced the 2007 Semifinalists for the 71st Maxwell Award for the Collegiate Player of the Year, the 13th Chuck Bednarik Award for the Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year, and the 19th George Munger Award for College Coach of the Year...

Hot RBs Lead List Of Rising Draft Prospects
SI.com
It was a great weekend for a number of top NFL prospects at running back as several turned in great performances and elevated their draft stock...

Unknown Quantity
New Orleans Times Picayune
Those associated with Tulane know all about Matt Forté, but the running back with an NCAA-best 1,642 yards for a 2-7 team isn't being picked up on most of the national media's Heisman Trophy radar...

November 2, 2007
Tulane's Forté Bids To Lead All NCAA Rushers
The Sporting News
Tulane running back Matt Forté is a finance major who always considered math among his best subjects. Yet even he has trouble getting his mind around the numbers he's putting up for the Green Wave...

November 1, 2007
Conference USA Possesses Nation's Top 2 RBs
SI.com
Four weeks into the year, Tommy West's Memphis team headed to UCF to take on the country's then-No. 1 rusher, Kevin Smith. Five games later, the Tigers were again facing the nation's top runner, this time it was Tulane's Matt Forté...

Finding His Forté
Tulsa (Okla.) World
SMU mixed hard hits with taunting words when it tackled Tulane running back Matt Forté early in their football game...

Football Is A Forté Family Tradition
Tulane New Wave
Before every Tulane football game he plays, Matt Forté gets three phone calls -- one from his dad, Gene, one from his mom, Gilda, and one from his brother Bryan. Football is a family tradition in the Forté household...

October 31, 2007
Tulane's Forté Runs Away With Records
USA Today
Matt Forté's soft-spoken manner and humble nature don't jibe with that definition of his surname. But the Tulane tailback's performance on the field is certainly making noise...

October 30, 2007
Forté Getting Some National Pub
NOLA.com
When you're piling up 200-yard games on a weekly basis, at some point the national media is going to take notice...

October 29, 2007
Top 10 Most Improved Players
ESPN.com
Meet the Eddie George of Conference USA. Forté is pounding his way to 200-yard games at every turn...

Forté Recognized by ESPN's Mel Kiper
ESPN.com
The Tulane Green Wave lost a tough one in the closing seconds against Memphis (28-27), but their record-setting senior RB Matt Forté put on quite a display...

University Of Tulsa: Three Questions
Tulsa (Okla.) World
Tulane running back Matt Forté is a defensive coordinator's nightmare. He leads the nation by averaging 192.4 yards per game...

College Plus
New Jersey Star-Ledger
Who is Matt Forté and why is his name being mentioned with Barry Sanders and Marcus Allen now...

October 28, 2007
Forté's Showing Bittersweet
New Orleans Times Picayune
This isn't a Wave. It's a tsunami. And watching Matt Forté run for what seems like as many yards per game as he wants is one of the most unbelievable events Tulane football has had the privilege of calling its own, and probably one of the most under-watched treats in college football history...

Give The Heisman To Forté
WWLTV.com
The pass BC QB Matt Ryan made against Va. Tech Thursday night to give the Golden Eagles the win was as good a college football throw as I have ever seen. It reminded me of a Brett Favre-type chunk. Very Heisman-esque. Speaking of Heisman, give it to Matt Forté and shut up...

October 27, 2007
Driving Force
New Orleans Times Picayune
Matt Forté has done some remarkable things in '07.The letters were coming in the mail, but no phone calls followed...

Forté Shows Interest, Ability At Early Age
New Orleans Times Picayune
As you listen to Gilda and Gene Forté turn back the clock of life, you get the impression you're thumbing through a parent's scrapbook, a collection of snapshots on those growing-up days of a 21-year-old, who at the moment is the leading rusher in college football...

October 26, 2007
Marshall Catches A Break
Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette
Contrary to popular belief, 0-7 Marshall does get a break or two on the schedule. With cross-divisional opponents rotating this year, Marshall avoids Tulane's Matt Forté, who suddenly is America's top rusher...

October 25, 2007
Forté Mentioned In Bayou Buzz
Bayou Buzz
Tulane was expected to be unpredictable this season, but they were not expected to have the No. 1 rusher in college football's 1-A's 119 programs. The Green Wave had a new coach in Bob Toledo and a new offensive scheme and one of Conference USA's best running backs in Matt Forté...

Forté's Running Sparks Wave
Memphis (Tenn.) Commerical Appeal
When Matt Forté was prepping at Slidell (La.) High, Division 1-A programs failed to identify him as a future college standout. Four years later, they're still missing...

October 24, 2007
Tulane Gets Creative
New Orleans Times Picayune
Each week he challenges himself and his staff to devise a game plan that somehow beats defenses that are crowding the line to stop star senior running back Matt Forté...

Wave Tries To Get Word Out On Forté
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Tulane sports information department had no idea senior running back Matt Forté's season would take off the way it has...

Rushing Yards Not Putting Tulane's Forté In Spotlight
Baton Rouge Advocate
If Tulane running back Matt Forté got as much attention from the national media as he's getting from opposing defenses, he'd practically be a shoo-in for the Heisman Trophy...

Forté Rolling With The Wave
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion Ledger
Tulane running back Matt Forté leads the nation in rushing (180.4 yards per game) after a 342-yard performance in the Green Wave's overtime win over SMU Saturday - his second 300-yard game...

Tulane University's Forté Continues To Set Records
St. Tammany News
Tulane University senior running back Matt Forté, a 2004 Slidell High graduate, continued to assault the record books Saturday as he rushed for 342 yards and four touchdowns in the Green Wave's 41-34 overtime victory over Southern Methodist University at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas...

October 23, 2007
College Football Player of the Week - Matt Forté
DraftInsider.com
Tulane's running back Matt Forte rushed the ball 38 times for 342 yards and 4 TDs helping the Green Wave to defeat SMU 41-34 in overtime...

Rushing Is Matt's Forté
New Burn (N.C.) Sun Journal
Can anybody stop Tulane's Matt Forté? Not yet. The Green Waves running back jumped to the top of the list as the nation's leading rusher...

October 22, 2007
Forté At Top Of Coach's List
New Orleans Times Picayune
In his more than three decades of coaching college football, Bob Toledo has helped tutor some good running backs...

October 21, 2007
Tulane's Forté Earns National Player Of The Week Honor
New Orleans Times Picayune
It hasn't taken Tulane senior running back Matt Forté long to start pulling in accolades from his stunning 342-yard, four-touchdown rushing performance that helped the Green Wave beat SMU 41-34 in overtime Saturday...

Forté Bulls Way For 342 Yards
New Orleans Times Picayune
For weeks now, senior running back Matt Forté and his teammates have conceded that their backs are against the wall, but they've talked the good talk and held on to the fact that they haven't been prevented from reaching any of their goals...

College Football Roundup
NOLA.com
Matt Forté had another amazing game for Tulane. One could easily go on and on about the continuation of the great upset this weekend. Indeed, four top ten teams lost...

Best Of The Best Roundup
Los Angeles (Calif.) Times
Matt Forté scored on a nine-yard run in overtime and finished with a Conference USA-record 342 yards in 38 attempts to lead the Green Wave (2-5, 1-2) over the Mustangs (1-6, 0-3) at Dallas...

Oct. 19, 2007
Wave Washed Away
Tulane Hullabaloo
Matt Forté must be sick to his stomach. What does another 200-plus yard game get you and your team? If you answered another loss, give yourself a pat on the back...

Oct. 14, 2007
Forté's 209 Yards Just Not Enough
New Orleans Times Picayune
Another big night for Matt Forté, another night of frustration. For the second consecutive game, the Tulane senior running back rushed for more than 200 yards, and he left the field angry that his team lost 26-21 to UAB...

Blazers Give Up Yards But Not So Many Points
The Birmingham (Ala.) News
It didn't take Joe Henderson and the UAB defense long to learn Matt Forté's forte. The Tulane running back runs as well backward as he does forward, spinning out of a hit and getting extra yards backpedaling...

Oct. 12, 2007
UAB Focused On Forté
NOLA.com
For Tulane, one of the real bright spots in the 2007 season has been the exceptional play of star running back Matt Forté...

Tulane's Forté Is Running The Ball
The Birmingham (Ala.) News
The UAB defense doesn't have to tackle Mississippi State's Anthony Dixon anymore this season. Unfortunately for UAB, head coach Neil Callaway thinks this week's defensive assignment - stopping 6-foot-2, 225-pound Tulane running back Matt Forté - is more difficult...

October 6, 2007
Q&A With Tulane Running Back Matt Forté
Hudson Valley (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record
Tulane running back Matt Forte is bringing it tonight. Army defensive end Brandon Thompson is ready...

Sept. 30, 2007
Forté's Outing Is Bittersweet
New Orleans Times Picayune
A week after setting a Conference USA record for rushing yards (303) and tying the conference record for touchdowns (five), Tulane running back Matt Forté did not expect he would be able to repeat his performance...

Sept. 29, 2007
Forté Leaving Lasting Mark At Tulane
Tulane Gameday Program
When Matt Forté arrived on the Tulane campus as a 6-1, 210-pound true freshman prior to the 2004 season, the Green Wave football program had some pretty big shoes to fill...

Sept. 28, 2007
Tulane Works On Running Game For Tigers
LSU Daily Reveille
After notching their first victory of the season this past week, Tulane coach Bob Toledo and the Green Wave have a simple goal for Saturday's game against the No. 2 Tigers - improvement...

Matt Forté Bails Out Quarterbacks
Tulane Hullabaloo
Football is the ultimate team game. But against Southeastern Louisiana, Matt Forté apparently decided to put the Green Wave on his back and carry it to its first victory of the season...

Sept. 24, 2007
Tulane's Forté Snags Walter Camp Offensive Award
New Orleans Times Picayune
After setting a numerous records in Tulane's 35-27 victory over Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday night at the Superdome, Tulane senior running back Matt Forté was selected the Walter Camp national Offensive Player of the Week, the foundation said Sunday...

Sept. 23, 2007
Green Wave Survives Hard-Nosed Challenge By Lions
New Orleans Times Picayune
Matt Forté didn't have a cape, but he brought a busy pair of cleats and gained superhero status by rushing for a school and Conference USA-record 303 yards on 40 carries and scored all five Tulane touchdowns -- another program record -- in the 35-27 victory over Southeastern Louisiana...

Sept. 5, 2007
Meet Matt Forté
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
Matt Forté is a heckuva running back, there's little doubt about that. Take what the Tulane player did last year in Starkville. He ran 29 times for 170 yards and a touchdown, which turned out to be the game-winning score...

Sept. 2, 2007
Exceptional Forté
New Orleans Times Picayune
People can't seem to say enough good things about Matt Forté. Take first-year Tulane Coach Bob Toledo...

Aug. 11, 2007
Tulane's New Coach Relying On Forté's Healthy Return To Strengthen Offense
NCAAFootball.com
Any time a new coach has to find a new starting quarterback, the results can vary widely. At Tulane, Bob Toledo will hedge against the unknowns by relying on the Green Wave's undisputed best and most experienced ball carrier...

Aug. 1, 2007
C-USA Media Blitz: Tulane's Forté Hopes To Carry A Big Load
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
With the focus being on the Cougars and Golden Hurricane during the annual Media Blitz at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans, Tulane's Matt Forté sat patiently as writers from across the country bypassed the Green Wave's table in the ballroom...

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